Johann Schaaff, a wheelwright (Rademacher), & Anna Elisabeth Boss, both born in the area of Riedesel, were married on 7 June 1766 in Pastor Möllraht's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johannes Schaaff [sic], his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Anna Maria (age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Anna Maria died en route.
Johann Schaaf, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Anna Maria (age 5-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Lieutenant Gawril Poduzki.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Stephan on 24 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3.
Johann Christoph Schaaf [believed to be from Holstein] is recorded on the 1834 census of Holstein in Household No. 99.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schaaf came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that Johann Schaaf came from the German village of Engelrod.
- 1834 Holstein Census (Household No. 99).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sp22.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #239.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 222.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5588.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2277-2279.
Brent Mai